You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
- BSB You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.
- ESV you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,
- NKJV You shall build with whole stones the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.
- NASB You shall build the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lord your God;
- NLT Build the altar of uncut stones, and use it to offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God.
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- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Lev 1:1–17Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
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